Chickenpox was in vogue several years before and now in most of the countries around the world, people are vaccinated well in advance. It is basically an infectious disease caused by virus by name varicella that causes bumps or lesions on the skin. Chickenpox is contagious and can spread throughout the body and also to others. Taking a shot of chickenpox vaccine is the only way to prevent this disease and related symptoms.
Chicken Pox Symptoms :
Vaccination for chickenpox was invented in 1990 and since then cases have come down in numbers. Children are highly vulnerable for getting chickenpox if they have not been vaccinated.
Skin rash with blisters is the distinctive feature of this disease. The infection can easily spread to others from infected person and it remains in the body for 1-3 weeks in latent form. During this period, no symptoms are seen. Initial symptoms would appear after 7-21 days of getting infected.
- It starts with mild fever, headache and body pain.
- Skin rash with tiny pink bumps are found to occur in the face and neck region.
- Next day the bumps would spread gradually to hands and stomach and on your back. Gradually you can see pink bumps or lesions throughout the body.
- Following this, the tiny bumps would assume the shape of red fluid filled blisters causing pain and irritation.
- Pus like fluid will ooze out from the bumps causing discomfort. The same status would continue for 3-5 days depending on its intensity.
- Finally the bumps would turn crusty to shed the upper layer and it soon begins to heal in the next couple of days.
- Skin rash and bumps would be changing continuously in the body day by day. At one part of the body, the lesions would heal and scab over with crust. But on some other part of the skin fresh bumps with fluid would appear causing itchy feeling.
- It takes anywhere from 7-14 days for the bumps to get scabbed away completely.
- Skin rash can be categorized into 3 phases namely formation of tiny bumps, fluid filled red blisters and finally the scabbed lesions with crust.
- The infected child/adult remains contagious from the onset of infection into the body and until the period of fluid filled blisters remain in the body.
- In rare cases if the person’s immunity is low, rash and lesions are formed even in the eyes, throat and on the anus and genital region.
- It is very much necessary to protect other members in the home if any child develops chickenpox, and more precautions to be taken if there is an infant or elderly person in your home by getting them vaccinated.